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Saturday, October 1, 2016

What's on My Radar ~ October '16

What's on My Radar highlights the
releases for that month that I'm excited for and gives the opportunity
to discuss what everyone is looking forward to.

October 4

Gemma has been in and
out of hospitals since she was born. 'A sickly child', her lonely life
to date has revolved around her home, school and one best friend, Alice.
But when she discovers her father's connection to the top secret Haven
research facility, currently hitting the headlines and under siege by
religious fanatics, Gemma decides to leave the sanctuary she's always
known to find the institute and determine what is going on there and why
her father's name seems inextricably linked to it.Amidst the
frenzy outside the institute's walls, Lyra - or number 24 as she is
known as at Haven - and a fellow experimental subject known only as 72,
manage to escape. Encountering a world they never knew existed outside
the walls of their secluded upbringing , they meet Gemma and, as they
try to understand Haven's purpose together, they uncover some
earth-shattering secrets that will change the lives of both girls
forever...

The princess didn't expect to fall in love--with her nemesis.

Princess
Sepora of Serubel is the last Forger in all the five kingdoms. The
spectorium she creates provides energy for all, but now her father has
found a way to weaponize it, and his intentions to incite war force her
to flee from his grasp. She escapes across enemy lines into the kingdom
of Theoria, but her plans to hide are thwarted when she is captured and
placed in the young king's servitude.

Tarik has just taken over
rulership of Theoria, and must now face a new plague sweeping through
his kingdom and killing his citizens. The last thing he needs is a
troublesome servant vying for his attention. But mistress Sepora will
not be ignored. When the two finally meet face-to-face, they form an
unlikely bond that complicates life in ways neither of them could have
imagined.

Sepora's gift could save Tarik's kingdom from the Quiet
Plague. But should she trust her growing feelings for her nemesis, or
should she hide her gifts at all costs?

A thrilling futuristic
fantasy in which the fate of the world's energy source is in the hands
of a prince and princess who are rivals, by the New York Times-bestselling author of the Syrena Legacy.

When the Moon Was Ours
follows two characters through a story that has multicultural elements
and magical realism, but also has central LGBT themes—a transgender boy,
the best friend he’s falling in love with, and both of them deciding
how they want to define themselves.To everyone who knows them,
best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses
grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water
tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs
in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he
and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers
Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful
sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from
Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love.
And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to
make sure she gives them up.

Witch’s apprentice
Bridey Corkill has hated the ocean ever since she watched her granddad
dive in and drown with a smile on his face. So when a dead girl rolls in
with the tide in the summer of 1913, sixteen-year-old Bridey suspects
that whatever compelled her granddad to leap into the sea has made its
return to the Isle of Man.Soon, villagers are vanishing in the
night, but no one shares Bridey’s suspicions about the sea. No one but
the island’s witch, who isn’t as frightening as she first appears, and
the handsome dark-haired lad Bridey rescues from a grim and watery fate.
The cause of the deep gashes in Fynn’s stomach and his lost memories
are, like the recent disappearances, a mystery well-guarded by the sea.
In exchange for saving his life, Fynn teaches Bridey to master her fear
of the water — stealing her heart in the process.Now, Bridey
must work with the Isle’s eccentric witch and the boy she isn’t sure she
can trust — because if she can’t uncover the truth about the ancient
evil in the water, everyone she loves will walk into the sea, never to
return.

October 11

There are winged horses
that live in the mirrors of Briar Hill hospital. In the mirrors that
line its grand hallways, which once belonged to a princess. In those
that reflect the elegant rooms, now filled with sick children. It is her
secret. One morning, when Emmaline climbs over the wall of the
hospital’s abandoned gardens, she discovers something incredible: a
white horse with broken wings has left the mirror-world and entered her
own. Tucked into the garden’s once-gleaming sundial, Emmaline
finds a letter from the Horse Lord. He is hiding the wounded white
horse, named Foxfire, from a dark and sinister force—a Black Horse who
hunts by colorless moonlight. If Emmaline is to keep the Black Horse
from finding her new friend, she must collect colorful objects with
which to blind him. But where can Emmaline find color when her world is
filled with gray?

Jae is a slave in a dying desert world. Once
verdant with water from a magical Well, the land is drying up, and no
one remembers the magic needed to keep the water flowing. If a new
source isn’t found soon, the people will perish. Jae doesn’t mind, in a
way. By law, she is bound by a curse to obey every order given her, no
matter how vile. At least in death, she’ll be free. Lord Elan’s
family rules the fading realm. He comes to the estate where Jae works,
searching for the hidden magic needed to replenish the Well, but it’s
Jae who finds it, and she who must wield it. Desperate to save his
realm, Elan begs her to use it to locate the Well. But why would
a slave—abused, beaten, and treated as less than human—want to save the
system that shackles her? Jae would rather see the world burn. Though
revenge clouds her vision, she agrees to help if the kingdom’s slaves
are freed. Then Elan’s father arrives. The ruler’s cruelty knows no
limits. He is determined that the class system will not change—and that
Jae will remain a slave forever.

October 18

The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller that critics are calling “out-of-this-world awesome.”

Moving
to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the
death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her
killed.

The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.

Hanna
is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of
a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the
realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little
do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.

When
an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are
thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking
off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s
wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before
dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival;
the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.

But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.

Once again told through a compelling dossier of emails, IMs, classified files, transcripts, and schematics, Gemina raises the stakes of the Illuminae Files, hurling readers into an enthralling new story that will leave them breathless.

October 25

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike comes a truly original new novel—Breaking Bad
meets Marie Antoinette in a near-future world where the residents of
Versailles live like it’s the eighteenth century and an almost-queen
turns to drug dealing to save her own life.

Outside
the palace of Versailles, it’s modern day. Inside, the people dress,
eat, and act like it’s the eighteenth century—with the added bonus of
technology to make court life lavish, privileged, and frivolous. The
palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it’s about
to become a very beautiful prison. When Danica witnesses an act of
murder by the young king, her mother makes a cruel power play . . .
blackmailing the king into making Dani his queen. When she turns
eighteen, Dani will marry the most ruthless and dangerous man of the
court. She has six months to escape her terrifying destiny. Six months
to raise enough money to disappear into the real world beyond the palace
gates. Her ticket out? Glitter. A drug so powerful that a tiny
pinch mixed into a pot of rouge or lip gloss can make the wearer
hopelessly addicted. Addicted to a drug Dani can sell for more money
than she ever dreamed. But in Versailles, secrets are impossible to
keep. And the most dangerous secret—falling for a drug dealer outside
the palace walls—is one risk she has to take.

Here are all of the October releases that I'm really looking forward to! There are just so many, that I wouldn't be surprised if I forgot a few that I'm excited for. There are so many being released on the 4th! Hopefully I don't go broke this month!

Have you read any of these books so far, and, if so, what did you think of them?